So I am that person who watches other people play video games, and never play them myself. Yeah, it’s strange, but life is strange (heh get it?). Anyway, one of my recent games I watched through is Life is Strange, a game that focuses on a teenager who can control time and must save her classmates and friends from death and destruction.
Max Caulfield is a high school student at Blackwell Academy, a private school in Arcadia Bay, Oregon. She realizes she has the power to rewind time when she sees a her best friend, Chloe, get shot. Her power gets more use while Blackwell becomes a place of drugs, death, and mystery, and a storm starts to brew over Arcadia Bay.
The reason I enjoyed watching the game is because the story is actually pretty complex and has unexpected twists and turns. The graphics of the Pacific Northwest are beautiful, and the soundtrack is good. It’s also interesting to watch how time travel can aid Max, or hurt her greatly.
The relationships in the game are compelling, whether it’s with long time best friend Chloe, Warren the forever friend zoned guy, or the Vortex Club. It’s all a mystery, and just when you think you figured out who the killer is, you get a surprise.
Certainly, you can play the game yourself and get the experience of figuring it all out. I’m not a video gamer, so just watch the play through. I watched PewDiePie’s, because he is relatively quiet so it’s easier to hear the dialogue, and all 5 episodes are up already so you don’t have to wait forever to see it.
What is your favorite video game to watch or play? Leave me a comment letting me know!
Life is Strange wasn’t perfect, but I still loved it so much. Stumbled over it when browsing vids uploaded by Yogscast KIM and nearly didn’t watch it because it didn’t look like it would appeal to me, but decided to give it a go, expceting to lose interest after 10-15 minutes or so. Gods, was I wrong. Watched the whole first episode and then went right to Steam and bought the full game. I was full of anticipation before every single episode, and several moments had me fighting back tears. Other moments left me awake in bed at night, agonising over my choices and dreading the consequences.
I played through Life is Strange and really enjoyed it, but I’m very tempted to watch others play it to see if they made different choices and what those outcomes were.
I am also an avid video game water. Most video games are too difficult for me (it’s the two joystick business and my lack of hand eye coordination). I really enjoyed this video game and even played it myself. I like action/consequence decision based games and this was my first dive into them. It was fun but because I’m a photographer, I feel a little biased. The characters were excellent, scenery beautiful, and I loved all the pop culture references.
That’s what Let’s Plays are for right? That being said, I did play this game and HOLY CRAP FEELS. Did you feel this way too?? I was actually pretty upset with the ending because…well, I don’t want to spoil anything on this comment thread but I’ve been dying to talk to someone about this game 🙂
I have seen the ending. I liked one ending but not the other (I have seen both).